The upgrade and replacement cycle will usher in all sorts of changes, and cloud computing will be the foundation for all of them.

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As the foundation of cloud computing, virtualization has drastically transformed IT environments.

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Operational competitiveness is the new dividing line between the success stories and also-rans in cloud computing and Internet services, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation during a panel discussion at the Big Science conference that took place in San Jose this week.

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